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No, medical alerts for seniors are not covered by Medicare. Most insurance carriers will not cover medical alert systems for seniors either, even with a doctors prescription. If you are willing to purchase one out of your own pocket, you may want to take a look at the following website which offers affordable medical alert systems for seniors http://www.callforassistance.com/.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoNo. Area Agency on Aging offers some financial assistance to low income seniors, however.
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∙ 11y agoFor the most part the answer is "No", but it's depends on the state. Some states will pay for Personal Emergency Response services (PERs) through Medicaid waivers, though most don't.
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Is medical alert monitoring covered by Medicare?
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Are Medical Alert systems covered by Medicare or Medicaid?
Medicare does not cover medical alerts and your insurance usually won't either. However under specific circumstance Medicaid will pay for it and some states have laws which will subsidize medical alerts.
If a patient has medicare primary and medicaid secondary what payment is the patient responsible for?
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How does a person get reimbursed by Medicare if they buy an item that is covered by Medicare but bought by the individual?
You will need to contact Medicare and submit the claim directly to Medicare yourself.
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